Hiring Your First Employee: A Step-By-Step Guide

By Fred Steingold

Hiring anyone can be intimidating -- but this is especially true if you're considering hiring your first employee. A new level of laws and regulations kick in, not to mention all the costs involved.

Fortunately, Hiring Your First Employee provides a complete, easy-to-read overview of hiring an employee, as well as legal and practical advice at every step.

Instant Turnaround

By Henry Paul

Imagine a company where people are excited about coming to work and giving their best efforts every day. In this innovative and engrossing business parable, Harry Paul and Ross Reck show managers at all levels how they can immediately and easily increase productivity by tapping into the discretionary effort of the people who work for them. Starting from the most basic aspect of business reality - that people intentionally regulate the amount of effort they put into their jobs based upon how they feel they're being treated - the authors point out that the most important part of the job of every manager, team leader, supervisor, and executive is to treat people in such a way that they become excited about applying all their discretionary effort toward performing their jobs.

The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Perform

By Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton

This updated edition of the New York Times bestseller - The Carrot Principle - couldn't come at a better time, as the economic downturn requires us all to come up with creative and cost-effective ways to stimulate growth and productivity.